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Re: apostrophe in usernames?




> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know the current RFC status of special tokens with
> regard to apostrophes appearing in the username part of an email
> address(within the <>), i.e. the following error shows the difficulty:
> 
> <<- MAIL From:<Bonnie.O'Dwyer@UAlberta.CA> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=2375
> ->> 501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments (this is abnormal, investigate!)
...
> This is under ZMailer version 2.99.10mea.
> 
> Out of curiosity, do more recent ZMail's handle this gracefully, or is 
> this indeed a true syntax error that does require this error handling?
> I would rather the source MTA leave out the apostrophe, but without
> cannon-fire, I might not be able to convince them.

	Somewhen around 2.99.34-36 somebody reported about this
	problem, and after a moment of debate on list I did alter
	the character classification tables at the SMTP-server.

	It does look like I made a mistake on that character during
	the creation of that table way back...  The newer releases do
	accept that address just fine:

->> 220 mea.tmt.tele.fi ZMailer Server 2.99.41 #1 ESMTP+IDENT ....
...
<<- MAIL From:<Bonnie.O'Dwyer@UAlberta.CA> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=2375
->> 250 2.1.0 Ok
...

> Thanks,
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	/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>